Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A recent tidbit at SF Signal notes that editor, author, and critic Jonathan Strahan has announced he has “sold a follow-up anthology to The Starry Rift to Sharyn November at Viking Penguin. Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier is a young adult science fiction anthology that takes as its leaping off point that we do go to Mars in 2040, as announced by George Bush last year. Some of my favorite writers will create stories somewhere in the timeline of that future Mars. It should be a terrific book. It won’t be out till some time in 2010 ...”

"I'm an optimist. I discard all such dark tomorrows. I have faith in man as God and God as man; I believe we'll be immortal, seed the stars and live forever in the flesh of our children. That's my job as a writer -- to show man his basic goodness, to dramatize his struggle up and away from this planet." -- RB